New Year With New Ideas

We are almost at the end of the first month of the new year.  I have not been able to paint for the past two and a half months as I was snowed under with sewing and the making of blockout blinds for the entire house.  This summer is extremely hot compared to previous summers and the entire January we experienced heatwave upon heatwave in Cape Town with a wicked South Easterly wind on most days.  Although the blinds were a lot of hard work, it is now paying off and keeping the house much cooler.  The aircon also seems to cope a little better too.

Seven paintings are currently on exhibition at the Masque Theatre in Muizenberg until the end of February.  Below is the last painting I completed in 2015 and forms part of the above mentioned exhibition.

"Perfection In Imperfection"

40 x 90 x 4cm 

Acrylic on gallery wrapped canvas

Close-up of a portion of "Perfection In Imperfection"

This year I decided to work out a painting schedule and to try and stick to it as much as I possibly can.  I made the decision to work on a series of smaller paintings and there is reason behind the 'madness'.  First of all not everybody has the wall space for big paintings.  Small paintings are much more affordable as well as postage/courier and shipping will also be much more cost effective for the buyer.

There are a couple of techniques and an additional colour or two that I would like to play around with, so time will tell.  I hope that you will walk this journey with me and your feedback will be much appreciated.

I hope to see you around.